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Chinese army colonel says avian flu is a secret American plot against China

Colonel Dai Xu of the People’s Liberation Army wrote online that the new strain of bird flu hitting China, known as H7N9, is an American “bio-psychological weapon” meant to destabilize China. The rant, posted to Dai’s account on the Twitter-like service Weibo, had already been shared by more than 30,000 fellow users by the time that the South China Morning Post reported it on Monday. Dai now has a quarter million followers on Weibo, which is quite a platform.

In general, Chinese Web users appear to have rejected Dai’s argument. In response to the criticism, though, he’s only dug in. “It is common knowledge that a group of people in China have been injected with mental toxin by the U.S.,” he wrote at one point. “I will not retreat even half a step.” He urged Chinese officials to ignore the virus’s apparent spread and argued that the disastrous 2003 SARS outbreak was also an American plot.

Dai’s conspiracy theory does not appear to be widely held, although fears about the United States and its supposed secret desire to topple the Chinese Communist Party are not uncommon among Chinese officials. He is a lecturer at the National Defence University, giving him a not insignificant platform for his theories and the worldview behind them.

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What is the first rule of World Domination plots?
You don’t talk about World Domination Plots.
What is the second rule of World Domination plots?
You don’t talk about World Domination Plots.
These are simple rules people.

As if! This administration (and the current CIA) couldn’t pull off an operation like this in a hundred years. They’d probably lose the chicken while transporting it to China (via England and Kuwait – because First Class on Emirate Airlines is more tolerant or something), and then brag about it bagging Bin Laden (one peck to the forehead, another to the chest), while nominating it for the Nobel Prize in Medicine.